Sherlock Holmes news: Stephen Fry, who played IIRC the psychiatrist on Bones who treated Seeley Booth after he shot the clown off the ice cream truck in a conniption of annoyance, will play Mycroft in the second Guy Ritchie Holmes adaptation (with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law) due out in December 2011. Excellent choice.

Delta Airline 5951 required an emergency landing last night due to faulty wheels. Here is a video of the event from inside the cockpit:

I’ve never heard a flight attendant do that. I hope someone slapped her and the person who thought of the idea of doing that and the person who trained her to do that and all the executives and stockholders of Delta airline who paid her to do that. Seriously. That sort of shit is nothing but a manifestation of the post-civilization culture thatI’ve been complaining about all along.

OK, enough of that. Now, FREEZE MO FOKCERS READ THE NEXT ITEM ON THIS BLOG POST NOW!!!!!!111!!! NOW NOW NOW!!!!1!

No, it didn’t feel good to say that at all. Here’s the next item:

That’s a new sculpture in Milan. At the stock exchange. READ THE STORY HERE NOW, READ THE STORY HERE NOW, GET YOUR HEAD DOWN, DOWN, DOWN…

No, I still don’t think I want a job as a flight attendant.

Other items of interest for teachers: “Back to school special“

While riding around his North Yorkshire estate on a Segway, [Jimi Heseldon] reportedly drove straight off a cliff and into the River Wharfe. A spokesperson for West Yorkshire police confirmed his death: “He was pronounced dead at the scene.”

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Heseldon did not invent the Segway, he just bought the company last year. His company was primarily engaged in defense contracting.

Evolution is a myth!!!! Why, Charles Darwin Himself …. BlaHH!!

Dabbled in which craft? Oh, witchcraft! Mice have human brains? Maybe this human has a mouse brain! Ugh.

Hat tip Amy

People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.

Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history.

Frankly, I’m not sure what I think about this.

Official opened floodgates on two dams causing flooding that required over two million people to move. It is not clear that residents were warned in advance. The dams are normally opened this time of year to track rainfall patterns in the region.

Details.